Among the 21 cases reported included seven legal cases – the highest number. In Freedom Network’s annual State of Press Freedom Report 2021, legal cases against journalists emerged as the biggest threat.
ISLAMABAD, 16 March 2021: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Islamabad-based media watchdog organization Freedom Network (FN) joined hands last year to help…
A senior officer of Punjab Police in Lahore in January 2021 hurled direct threat at Geo News channel’s crime reporter Ahmed Faraz for filing a report on “violation” of merit policy in transfers and postings the officer’s wife tweeted.
FN Threat Data Analysis – December 2020 A Christian journalist in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and district correspondent in Bahawalpur were murdered as 18 other cases…
FN Threat Data Analysis – September 2020 A woman journalist is among two journalists killed and 13 other journalists faced different kind of threats ranging…
Freedom Network files RTI request with Cabinet Division to seek access to information International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on 28 September Press…
RSF Investigation: Violence and impunity in Pakistan A single shot to the head took the life of the young Pakistani reporter Arooj Iqbal in the…
FN Threat Data Analysis – July 2020 A social media activist who was asking hard questions through his Facebook and Twitter accounts was shot…
PAKISTAN MEDIA MONITOR A monthly report on trends relating to state of journalism and media rights, policies and practices Tracking: Media related laws, policies and…
FN Threat Data Analysis – June 2020 Twelve cases of attempt to murder, detention, arrests, torture, offline, online harassment and legal cases against journalists…
FN Threat Data Analysis – May 2020 A second journalist was murdered in Sindh province this year as eight cases of different threat categories against…
Sindhi-language journalist, Zulfiqar Mandrani, was shot and killed in Jacobabad district of southern Sindh province on 26 May 2020, local journalists and family confirmed on…
ISLAMABAD, 08 May 2020: Freedom Network is deeply concerned at media reports that missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain’s dead body was found in a river…
FN Threat Data Analysis – April 2020 Two journalists escaped attempt on their lives as a total of 15 violations, including arrests, detention, offline…
Media Monitoring Report – March 2020 02 March: Rights groups, including Freedom Network, boycott government consultation over new regulations aiming at taking full control of…
Media Monitoring Report – February 2020 Feb 01: PEMRA slaps Rs.1 million fine on Channel 92 for “maligning” advisor to PM Imran Khan. https://www.dawn.com/news/1531876/pemra-slaps-rs1-million-fine-on-channel-92-for-maligning-sapm-zulfi-bukhari Feb…
Media Monitoring Report – January 2020 Jan 03: Sindh High Court stops police from registering cases against a journalist without court’s permission. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2129389/1-shc-bars-police-registering-cases-journalist-without-courts-permission/ Jan 08:…
A monthly report on trends relating to digital rights, policies, practices & media Tracking: Internet and digital policies and regulations Digitalization in governance and socio-economic…
Media Monitoring December 2019 Dec 04: A few dozen unidentified people stage protest against Dawn newspaper outside its Islamabad bureau over publication of news report…
KARACHI: 13 November 2019: Sindh Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mr Saeed Ghani announced Tuesday (12 November 2019) that Pakistan People’s Party’s government in the province…